On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:17 AM, mabshoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 30, 9:55 pm, john_perry_usm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey, it turns out that you hit it on the money. While looking through >> it again, I noticed that when examining the source through sage >> (using ??) the source file was listed in the directory >> /atlas/home/perry/nethome/sage-3.2.1/... >> instead of >> /home/software/sage-3.2.1/... >> "nethome" is the place things are downloaded to. I subsequently copied >> it to the new place & thought that I had been running it from there >> for a long time. >> >> In fact, when I deleted the nethome version sage ran as usual, without >> complaining about $SAGE_ROOT having moved...but this time the source >> code showed up correctly. > > Hmmm, I think in the future if something odd with SAGE_LOCAL is > detected we should just exit Sage and complain since this has caused > so much trouble. The documentation somewhere also recommends setting > SAGE_ROOT to an absolute path in the sage script which I consider a > bad, bad thing since these days symbolic linking sage works perfectly.
Then you should open a ticket and change that. It says that only because I was basically copying what the magma startup script does... 4 years ago. William > It didn't pre-Sage 3.0 or so. > >> Thank you very much! >> >> john > > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
